Amusement device



Sept. 18, 1928. 1,684,535

' A. B. DEWES AMUSEMENT DEVICE File,d Sept. 21, 1927 ATTOE/YEX PatentedSept. 18, 1928.

ARTHUR B. DEWES, or s'r. ouis, MISSOURI.

Fries.

AMUSEMENT DEVICE."

Application filed September 2 1, 1927. Serial No. 220,950.

This invention relates to amusement devices and is herein illustrated asembodied in a disc pitching game.

It is a well known fact that it is very diihcult to pitch or throw withaccuracy flat disc members, owing to their susceptibility of drifting 0rbeing otherwise thrust out of a straight linepath by means of the resistance afforded by the air, or wind, through. which the disc is pitched.Owing to this tendency on the part of discs, it is possible to provide agame in which chance will enter into the scoring thereof as much as willaccuracy.

. lVith the foregoing considerations in view, the present invention hasfor an object thereof the provision of a novel game comprising a targetand a plurality of discs of light weight for use in pitching at thetarget.

It will be appreciated that in a game of this character the best pitchhas been obtained when the playing member comes to rest directlycentrally of the target, and to assist in indicating readily the valueof a pitch the present invention contemplates constructing the targetand the playing members out of a flat sheet of material in such a mannerthat they are of the same identical shape. In the illustrated embodimentof the invention the target, as well as the playing members, areconstructed in the form of discs, i. e., fiat, round plates, and thediameters of all of the discs are uniform.

In the play of a game such as thatdisclosed in the illustratedembodiment of the invention, the target is placed upon a floor, or othersuitable horizontal surface, and the players stand at equal distancesaway from the target and pitch the playing members; the most accuratepitch being that in which the playing member comes to rest in a positioncompletely covering the target, and the least accurate pitch being thatin which the playing member fails even to get.

To assist in scoring the game an i1nportant feature of applicantsinvention consists in providing the target with a series of numhers, thelarger of which are located adjacent to the rim of the target and thesmaller of which are located adjacent to the center thereof. Thus itwill be seen that if the playing member covers a substantial portion ofthe area of the target a large number will touch the tar vidual-playermay be equipped with playing small number, which likewise is indicativeof the score that is awarded the second player. I 9

Other features and advantages of theinvention will be brought out upon areading of the following specifications in the light of the accompanyingdrawing, in which there is shown in plan elevation a view of a targetmember constructed in accordance with the present invention, showing indotted lines a playing member.

As shown in the drawing, the reference numeral 10 indicates a targetmember of a disc pitching game, which, as illustrated, is provided withradially extending columns of numbers graduated from the center'of the.target eutwardly to the rim thereof.' In the illustrated embodiment oftheinvention the lowest number in each column is located ad acent to thecentral portion of the target, and from'that point the numbers of eachcolumn increase in numerical, value until the rim of the target memberis approached, at which locality there is located the largest of thenumbers appearing in each column.

T he reference numeral 12 indicates a playing disc of a diameter equalto the diameter of the target, both members being made out.

of a flat, lightweight sheet material, such,

for example, as cardboard, celluloid, fabric, etc. 7 I

In the playing of the game the target member 10 is disposed upon ahorizontal surface, such, for example, as a floor, and the play ers arethen spaced at equal distanccsfrom the target and are each provided witha number of playing members 12. The members 2 may be conveniently madeof different colored materials, in order that each indimembers of acolor different from the color of the playing members with which theremaining players are provided. It will be appreciated that the mostaccurate and skillful pitch is made when the playing member 12 comes torest in a position covering entirely-the surface of the target 10, andin accordance with thesystem of scoring shown in the drawing, pitch, ofthischaracter results 'ill lin the player being awarded a score of 1000.

If, however, the playing member comes to rest, for example, as shown indotted lines,

while the pitch is a *very good one it is" not perfect and consequentlyis not dese wing of score, receives anaccount of 100. In the event thatthe playing member'fails to cover the bulls-eye of the target 10, noscore what- 'soever is'awarded. V i A HalVHlg thusdescribed myinvention, what .I claim as new and desire to secure by Letters Patentof'the United States is:

,1. A disc pitching game comprising, in combination, a targetprovidedwith radially arranged columns of numbers, and a plurality of playingmembers of substantially *the same shape and size as the target for usein pitching at thetarget.

2-. A disc itching game comprising a target membe'r lmving radiallyextending column of numbers disposed thereon,the numbers lJeing arrangedto increase in numerical wvalue from the central vportion of the targetto the outer edge thereof, and a plurality of playing members of"substantially the same shape and size as thetnrget member for use inpitching at the target. i. i

3. A disc pitchin gam'ecomprising a fiat; discal target mem er havingcolumns of niunbers arranged radially thereof, the numbers locatedwithin 'all of the columns progressing in numerical valuefrom' thecentral portion of the target member outwardly toward the rim thereof,and a. plurality of i flat discal of ap'proxmately the same shape andsize playing members formed of a lightweight material folruse inpitching at. the 7 target.

In testimony hereunto aflix mysignature.

ARTHUR B. DEWEs that I claim the foregoing I

